Web 2.0 and the Political Mobilization of College Students

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

Web 2.0 and the Political Mobilization of College Students investigates how college students’ online activities, when politically oriented, can affect their political participatory patterns offline. Kenneth W. Moffett and Laurie L. Rice find that online forms of political participation—like friending or following candidates and groups as well as blogging or tweeting about politics—draw in a broader swathe of young adults than might ordinarily participate. Political scientists have traditionally determined that participatory patterns among the general public hold less sway in shaping civic activity among college students. This book, however, recognizes that young adults’ political participation requires looking at their online activities and the ways in which these help mobilize young adults to participate via other forms. Moffett and Rice discover that engaging in one online participatory form usually begets other forms of civic activity, either online or offline.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-03-26
Mått:151 x 230 x 15 mm
Vikt:295 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Bloomsbury Studies in Political Communication
Antal sidor:190
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498538596

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Kenneth W. Moffett is associate professor of political science at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.Laurie L. Rice is associate professor of political science at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

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Kenneth W. Moffett and Laurie L. Rice show that online political participation among college students is far more than idle slacktivism. Using one form of social media leads to others, and online and offline civic activities are mutually reinforcing. Social media expand the pool of attentive citizens and the forms through which they can join the political fray. Political parties ignore those media at their peril.

Innehållsförteckning

Table of ContentsList of Figures, , List of Tables, , AcknowledgementsChapter One: Participation, Technology and AgeChapter Two: The Issues that Push Students OnlineChapter Three: A Portrait of Offline ParticipationChapter Four: Friending and Following as a Pathway for Political ParticipationChapter Five: Blogging and Tweeting as Attractors to Political ParticipationChapter Six: Going Offline? Online Participation’s Mobilizing EffectsChapter Seven: Causality, Endogeneity and the Complex Web of ParticipationChapter Eight: College Students and the Future of Political ParticipationAppendix A: Question Wording and Summary Statistics for Student Election Survey VariablesAppendix B: Question Wording and Summary Statistics for Pew Surveys VariablesReferencesAbout the Authors, ,